Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees plays a valuable role at the interface between science and society, promoting interactions with the public, acting as ambassadors for our research and advising us on issues of social concern.

Thom de GraafChairman of the political party D66 in the SenateDen Haag, the Netherlands

The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is an institute of the German Max Planck Society. Our mission is to undertake basic research into the psychological,social and biological foundations of language. The goal is to understand how our minds and brains process language, how language interacts with other aspects of mind, and how we can learn languages of quite different types.